By Henry Kamm; HENRY KAMM, is Athens bureau chief of The New York Times

In the days before Neil A. Armstrong gave real contours to the phantasmagoric image that the phrase ''lunar landscape'' used to evoke, Cappadocia could have served as its earthly counterfeit. Although firmly planted in the earth of Turkey's Anatolia...

THE cave I gazed up at during my visit to the bizarre Turkish region of Cappadocia was carved out of a soaring rock formation by a Christian monk more than 10 centuries ago. It was built for the seclusion of monastic life, and it still looks...